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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Scottish Recipes - Microwave Clootie Dumpling

Now presenting the most amazing, microwave recipe I have had the pleasure of making

The Microwave Clootie Dumpling

Microwave Scottish Clootie Dumpling

For those who don't know what a Clootie Dumpling is, because you aren't Scottish and you weren't born in 1938, a Clootie Dumpling is a traditionally sweet dumpling, made with dried fruit and wrapped in a cloot (cloth) and boiled in water a good few hours until cooked through

This recipe requires no boiling water and no cloot, just a microwave. Hurray for modern technology

It is traditionally served between Christmas and New Year, and most typically found in amongst a spread of great food on Hogmanay (Scottish New Years Eve)

Any well respecting Clootie dumpling maker will want a good skin on the dumpling, that skin will be pale, and pasty in appearance and apparently my mums Grannie used to sit her real cooked dumpling by the open fire to form a good pasty skin, em yeah ! !

Alas, the microwave clootie has no skin but it does still have that same texture

I am kinda glad as the skin freaked me out as a kid

So here is how to make the amazingly fast and easy (skinless) Clootie Dumpling

I mean, can you really wait for this to be boiled up in a cloot? Yeah, me neither

28 comments:

Thanks so much for this recipe. Shared a dish of Clootie Dumpling with custard during our Scotland trip in 2009. Decadent and oh so yummy! My husband (native Scot) really likes the bridies I fix with your recipe, so I'm thinking perhaps I'll try the Clootie during the Christmas holidays.

Love that you have tried it, not many people have, I am sure. Great that you have a Scottish hubby and he is liking all the recipes, we love the bridies on here too, let me know how you get on with the Clootie :)

Angela, You are too cute! Thanks for linking up your delicious Scottish Clootie Dumpling! It looks so yummy! Our family roots are from Scotland, but we have never made any Scottish dishes! So it's up to you to teach us!! :) Have a great weekend! -The Six Sisters

When Scottish Dancing in Ontario a Scottish lady brought a dumpling pudding cooked in the microwave. The recipe is just like yours and you explained the cooking so clearly.I cannot wait to try it for my English hubbie.Many thanks

I am scottish living in Troon just spent 4 hours cooking a clootie glued to the stove because it boils dry so quickly I have 2 more to make for a seniors St.Andrews day dinner. I am going to break with tradition and try your recipe and see if the seniors can tell the difference.:-)

omg that is so easy, i am in scotland and often make a clootie. I have one boiling away, been on for 2hours now. Made a microwave one,(since I had ingredients out anyway) perfect shape,perfect taste. Must test them out on the family, see if they can tell the difference.Doubt if I can fool my Dad tho, he is 89 and will be looking for the "skin". I recommend give it a try folks. So quick and very tasty.

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